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Show Statcf-touse Report... 01! and Gas Property Valuation Moves Up; Metal Mines Slump I5Y ( SUAKl Valuations of I'tali oil and g:i? properties niul of public utilities have increased flur-h.g flur-h.g the past year, but mining properties have- slumped. The over all t-ttoi-t is an $1127 million increase in valuation of all state-asses:;, od properties to a now hU:i of $ii77.5)2-l,12:i. Oil anil gas properties increased in-creased from $52.74 million last year to $;f.)5 million this year. M. II. Kerr. State Tax Commission Property Tax Division Director, reported that expanding oil fields in the I'intah Basin and on the north slope of the Uinta Mountains account for this growth. Public utilities valuations increased Rom $'264.11 mil. lion last year to $275.47 million mil-lion this year. Railroads, telephone, te-lephone, power, pipeline, air- lines and oilier utilities rie in this croup. Valuation of nil mining properties slumped from :M'.).7i) million last year to $345.5 million this year. "This is largely due to dropping one heavy production produc-tion year by Kennecolt Cop. per Co. and substituting a leaner year incident to low. or copper prices and reduced reduc-ed production," Kerr said. Metalliferous mining properties pro-perties are valued largely twice the average annual net proceeds for the three preceding pre-ceding years. Right to Work Slate Republican Chairman Kent Shearer predicted June 2 that Utah's Right to Work Law will be a major issue in this year's political battle. "If the people elect a Dem. ocrntie Legislature and reelect re-elect (!ov. Hampton they can expect repeal of the Right lo Work Law and imposition of compulsory unionism," Wi declared. Shearer pointed oul that the Democratic platform consistently con-sistently has called for repeal re-peal of the Right to Work Law. "With termination of many conservative Democratic legislative le-gislative seats due to reapportionment, reap-portionment, the party would be obliged to face ths issue," he claimed. Press Interview Shearer appeared on a KBYU press interview with Senate President Haven J-Barlow, J-Barlow, R -Lay ton, and House Minority Leader Lorin F. Pace, it-Salt Lake. Both Barlow and Pace .claimed that Rampton would feel more at home with a Republican majority In the Legislature than if he is (creed lo try to implement a Democratic platform with a Democratic majority. All three leaders opposed Hampton's proposal for a (( nslilelional amendment for granting property tax relief to aged home owners. Barlow said the proposal of the tax committee of the Legislative Council for a de. ferreil tax for aged needy home owners is preferrable. Oilier Avenue He predicted that Republicans Repub-licans also will explore thoroughly thor-oughly possible raiding of the existing tax exemption of $50 for needy property owners. Pace warned against any spot taxing and spot decisions which could favor any one group or be overly punitive against any orjc group. Utah will have significantly more jobs by 1980 than it will have available workers except for in-migration. The state also is due for a significant increase in numbers num-bers of school children by 1980. These conclusions are rea died in five different projections projec-tions announced to state de partment heads May 31. Five Plans Craig Bigler, State Planning Plan-ning Office staff member reported re-ported that the U. S. Department Depart-ment of Commerce and the Four Corners Regional Com-mission Com-mission have financed the studies. Each slate department h lo make plans for future developments de-velopments 10 years ahead utilizing the plans. Under the first plan, some expansion of manufacturing and construction are anticipated. antici-pated. Population would swell from the 1970 figure of 1,059,-273 1,059,-273 to 1,304,317 in 1980. Children under age nine would increase from the 1970 figure of 230,000 to 325,379 and basic employment would increase by 109,291. Kaiparowils Under another alternative the Kaiparowils steam eS-c-tric power plant would be built in Kane County, there would be major development of oil shale or of gas from coal, employment at Geneva Steel would increase and there would be significant in. creases in employment in recreation and in defense industries. Under this alternative population pop-ulation would jump to 1,091, 599, population under nine would increase to 384,478 and basic employment would be 40,850 higher than under the first plan. Public hearings on a proposed pro-posed highway maintenance station on 1-70 near Thomp. son and for communication. buildings near Price and Moab Mo-ab will be conducted by the State. Highway Department June 14 and 15. The proposed maintenance shed is planned approximately approximat-ely a mile south of Thompson Thomp-son adjacent to and east of (the county road to Valley City. Hearing on this project will be held June 15 at 1:30 p.m. in the Moab City Hall. One of the proposed communications com-munications buildings is set half a mile north from the center of Price. It would replace re-place an existing building at the same location. Similar replacement of an existing building s planned about 16 air miles southwest of Woodside. Hearings on both these projects will -. conducted June 14 at 1:30 p.m. in the Carbon County Courthouse. A new communications building buil-ding is planned about 12 air miles east of southeast of Moab. Public hearings on thh project will be conducted on June 15 at 9 30 a.m. in the Mrtlh r,nn.;i rli'.ml.r.rc |